RG02. School of Medicine

Petition and correspondence regarding the establishment of a medical school in Portland, Oregon.

Covering various periods through the years 1897 through 1937, and encompassing financial records, bank vouchers and ledgers, tuition receipts, automobile financial records, and other bank records related to the University of Oregon Medical School (now OHSU) School of Medicine Dean’s office.

The School of Medicine Alumni Association donated a collection of framed black and white portraits of past Alumni Association presidents in the period 1913-1987.

The Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) Records consist of comparative effectiveness reviews created and published by DMICE (OHSU Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology) during the years 2005-2008 on the usage of pharmaceuticals and other treatments for health conditions, diseases, and mental illness, including diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, hypertension, and depression.

The Medical Faculty Auxiliary (MFA) of the School of Medicine at OHSU donated these materials in 1997, upon the 50th Anniversary of its creation. Long known (1947-85) as the "Faculty Wives Club" it has a long history of being both a social network for spouses and "significant others" of medical students and personnel and a source of fund-raising and volunteerism for various things not covered in budgets. The collection expands on those activities.

The collection contains minutes of the UOMS Executive Faculty spanning 1969-1973, including attached documents, policies, proposals and correspondence.

A set of records was created by the newly established UOMS Alumnni Association in 1913. They were assembled into a bound volume of miscellaneous materials dated 1913-1931, although some records date to 1940. A later accrual added many lists of association members and recipients of various awards.

The Cashier's Ledger for the University of Oregon Medical School is a single bound volume covering 1930 to 1931 and contains budgetary accounts for the Medical School, Outpatient Clinic, Trust Fund, Auxiliary Agencies and Doernbecher Hospital. The accounts are chronological within categories.

The minutes record the growth of the University of Oregon Medical School from its inception in 1887, including the petition to the Board of Regents of the University of Oregon to establish a medical school in Portland, through the development of higher standards and requirements for medical education, new programs, departments, research, technology, land acquisition and building projects. Also included are various correspondance between departments, faculty and students.

The materials cover the range May 18, 1917 to August 3, 1920 and document a wide range of committee business including authorizations, employment, graduation and military issues related to Base Hospital 46.